Quotes by Hugh Walpole

“I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams”

“Dont play for safety. Its the most dangerous thing in the world.”

“Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.”

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness o...”

“In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.”

“The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.”

“Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.”

“Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.”

“Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.”

“In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.”

“The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.”

“Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.”

“Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things as well.”

“I am asking you again to marry me as I did a fortnight ago.”

“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the p...”

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner prog...”

“The temptation to neglect good ordinary writers, and thereby to exaggerate the importance of the unusual, is one that, even in the moment of deploring it, is hardly to be resisted. Mr. Walpole happ...”

“Of the general soundness of Mr. Walpole's work I am firmly convinced. He is distinctly a man of his time. We see him grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his usual earnest...”

“Henry James and John Buchan praised him. Joseph Conrad, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf were kind about him. What's more, his books sold enormously well on both sides of the Atlantic, he was knighted,...”